of words according to the rules of grammar.”—Id.
Better: “Parsing is the resolving
or explaining of a sentence according
to the definitions and rules of grammar.”—Brown’s
Inst., p. 28. (6.) “The parsing of
a word, remember, is an enumerating and describing
of its various qualities, and its grammatical
relations to other words in the sentence.”—Peirce
cor. (7.) “For the parsing of a word
is an enumerating and describing of
its various properties, and [its] relations
to [other words in] the sentence.”—Id.
(8.) “The parsing of a noun is
an explanation of its person, number,
gender, and case; and also of its grammatical relation
in a sentence, with respect to some other word
or words.”—Ingersoll cor.
(9.) “The parsing of any part of
speech is an explanation of all its properties
and relations.”—Id. (10.)”
Parsing is the resolving of a sentence
into its elements.”—Fowler cor.
“The highway of the upright is, to
depart from evil.”—Prov.,
xvi, 17. “Besides, the first step towards
exhibiting the truth, should be, to remove
the veil of error.”—O. B.
Peirce cor. “Punctuation is the dividing
of sentences, and the words of sentences, by
points for pauses.”—Id.
“An other fault is the using of
the imperfect tense SHOOK in stead of
the participle SHAKEN.”—Churchill
cor. “Her employment is the drawing
of maps.”—Alger cor.
“To go to the play, according to his
notion, is, to lead a sensual life, and to
expose one’s self to the strongest temptations.
This is a begging of the question, and
therefore requires no answer.”—Formey
cor. “It is an overvaluing of
ourselves, to reduce every thing to the narrow measure
of our capacities.”—Comly’s
Key, in his Gram., p. 188; Fisk’s Gram.,
p. 135. “What is vocal language? It
is speech, or the expressing of ideas
by the human voice.”—C. W.
Sanders cor.
UNDER NOTE IX.—VERBS OF PREVENTING.
“The annulling power of the constitution prevented that enactment from becoming a law.”—O. B. Peirce cor. “Which prevents the manner from being brief.”—Id. “This close prevents them from bearing forward as nominatives.”—Rush cor. “Because this prevents it from growing drowsy.”—Formey cor. “Yet this does not prevent him from being great.”—Id. “To prevent it from being insipid.”—Id. “Or whose interruptions did not prevent its continuance.” Or thus: “Whose interruptions did not prevent it from being